Know your BFF
This is represented by the variable "F" in F = ma.
What is the net force on an object in one dimension?
The unit of power, equivalent to 1 Joule per second.
What is a watt?
This was the horizontal acceleration of the projectiles we launched into a can (while in the air).
What is zero (m/s^2)?
This is the ONLY situation for the equation θ = λ / b
What is single-slit diffraction?
This two letter word is the 3rd person singular present indicative of "be"
What is is?
This is represented by the variable "Q" in Q = mL.
What is heat / thermal energy? (or the energy required to change the phase of a mass "m" of a substance)
In an inelastic collision, this quantity is NOT conserved.
What is kinetic energy?
This is the trick for finding the maximum speed of a car driving over a hill, or the minimum speed at the top of a loop-the-loop.
What is setting the normal force equal to zero?
This equation is the first law of thermodynamics.
What is Q = ΔU + W?
This is the name of Mr. Brown's cat
What is Joe?
This is represented by "d" in the equation s = λD/d
What is the distance between slits / sources of waves (for 2-source interference)
Two waves meet at a point in space completely in phase.
What is the condition for constructive interference?
This is the direction of a magnetic field that would push an electron moving to the right into the page.
What is up?
This is the law that best explains why an ice skater can rotate more quickly by bringing their arms and legs closer to their body.
What is the law of conservation of angular momentum?
In this 1993 Trinidadian-Eurodance smash hit, Haddaway pleads "baby don't hurt me!"
What is "What is Love?"
This is the assumption of the path difference (interference) equations.
What is the assumption that waves are emitted in phase?
This is the angular frequency of a spring-mass oscillator in terms of the mass and spring constant.
What is the square root of k/m?
The energy equivalent of the difference between the mass of a nucleus and the mass of its individual components.
What is binding energy?
This provided evidence for the existence of the neutrino.
What are the continuous energy spectra of beta particles in beta decay?
This is the bodily function that accounts for the loss in mass when a human loses weight.
What is breathing?
This is included so that you can find the "constant" if you are given a different permittivity value.
What is the equation for k next to Coulomb's law?
This is how you determine the average intensity of sunlight incident over the Earth's surface.
What is dividing the solar constant (from the data booklet) by 4?
The equation for the strength of an electric field created by a point charge that is NOT in your data booklet.
What is E = KQ/r2 ?
This is the inverse Lorentz transformation equation for the location of an event in the S frame given the location and time of the event in the S' frame.
What is x = 𝛾(x' + vt')?
The final two numbers of the sequence 4, 8, 15, 16, __, __
What are 23 and 42?